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A walk to the beach begins with frost on cars, little drops of melted frost, a misty haze and bright sun, all in this series of shots taken at Kirkley and Pakefield in south Lowestoft. Also, they are all taken with a prime lens - no zoom.
Concordia station in Antarctica seen through a mist. The location of Concordia was partly chosen because of its stable and good weather. Despite temperatures dropping below –60°C the weather is usually quite calm.
Situated on a mountain plateau 3200 m high crewmembers have to deal with constant hypoxia - lack of oxygen.
Low humidity is another encumbersome aspect of living on the research base. Concordia is in the largest desert in the world and crewmembers have to deal with constant sore throats and dry eyes. Many take a humidifier with them to help sleep at night.
ESA sponsors a research medical doctor each year to study the effects of living in isolation. The extreme cold, isolation, sensory deprivation and remoteness make living in Concordia similar to living on another planet.
Credits: ESA/IPEV/PNRA - A. Salam
A true classic! I've actually shot this camera in black and white and I'll post some shots later, The film advance was not working when I got it, but I got it working.
Argus was an American camera company and this is one of their most durable models -- in terms of construction and the fact that it was made in various forms for almost two decades.
Affectionately known as the "Brick" for it's boxy shape and toughness.
A weird rangefinder where you focus through one viewfinder, then shoot through another. Aperture is set by a dial at the very end of the lens, shutter speed with a wheel on the front of the camera, and focus with a wheel on the front that sticks out at the top. The shutter cocking and winding mechanism are separate, which results in double exposures if you're not careful.
Not sharp based on what I see in my shots, but a lot of fun to shoot. Especially at night in a steel mill in freezing cold weather, lol.
I know I won't use it a lot -- but it's a fun camera though you have to use a lightmeter with it.
I bought it for about $20.00 on eBay.
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Lieutenant Navy Shannon O’Riley watches as the crane lowers brow, on to the ice from the mezzanine deck of HMCS MARGARET BROOKE, in the Labrador Sea during ice trials on February 27, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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La lieutenante de vaisseau Shannon O’Riley observe la grue qui abaisse la passerelle d’embarquement sur la glace, depuis le pont démontable du NCSM MARGARET BROOKE, dans la mer du Labrador, lors des essais sur glace, le 27 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
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" I read them all one day
When loneliness came and you were away
Oh they told me nothing new,
But I love to read the words you used "
song: Things We Lost In The Fire by Bastille
Photographed from our running bus.
The weather since morning changed abruptly. Moderate to heavy snowfall dramatically changed the whole scenario while crossing Grand Teton Valley. Most of the passengers went into their grand siesta in such a cold weather, except two, me and my Chinese friend. The whole countryside turned into a silent paradise. I never wasted a moment to catch the glimpses of this beauty. We took as many snaps as possible from our running bus...know not how many of them!
Rout Map
Layering up and ready for the chilly weather
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CBP Office of Border Patrol conducts cold weather operations in the Wellesley Island, Alexandria Bay and Clayton region of New York along the border of the United States and Canada. Border Patrol Agents patrol frozen water ways along the border with the U.S. and Canada. Photo by James Tourtellotte
Ok, it was a little too warm for the GEN III ECWCS Extreme Cold Weather Parka but it is winter and it could end any day. 30 degrees with a still wind.
Very cold in Florida today, so I'm wearing a warmer & longer skirt & slip with Black Leggs Sheer Energy Pantyhose.
This is a photograph of my grandfather in what appears to be cold weather clothing. It was probably taken at about the time of the First World War. He served with the British army in the RGA (Royal Garrison Artillery) 114 Heavy Battery. He entered WW1 as a Battery Sergeant Major. In 1915 he was wounded in action, returned to England and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant for "distinguished service in the field". He passed away in 1952.
There is no indication on the back of the photograph as to why he is wearing this kit and carrying a rifle. Possibly part of his training at the time? This photograph was probably taken at Dover, Kent, England.
Sailor 1st Class Adam Drake prepares the Multi Roll Rescue Boat for departure to transport civilian contractors from Foxtrot Jetty in Newfoundland to HMCS MARGARET BROOKE in Conception Bay Harbour during transit to the Arctic for ice trials on February 20, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Le matelot de 1re classe Adam Drake prépare l’embarcation de sauvetage polyvalente qui servira à transporter des entrepreneurs civils de la jetée Foxtrot, à Terre Neuve, jusqu’au NCSM MARGARET BROOKE, dans le port de la baie Conception, alors que le navire se dirige vers l’Arctique pour participer à des essais sur glace, le 20 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
Captain Stuart Pellerin, Physicians Assistant (left) gives directions to Master Sailor Rob Ablett, Marine Technician, during a damage control exercise aboard HMCS HARRY DEWOLF in Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador during Cold Weather Trials on February 28, 2021.
Photo by Corporal David Veldman, Canadian Armed Forces Photo 20210228HSK0086D172
Le capitaine Stuart Pellerin, adjoint au médecin (à gauche), donne des directives au matelot chef Rob Ablett, technicien de marine, lors d’un exercice de lutte contre les avaries à bord du NCSM HARRY DEWOLF, dans la baie Conception, à Terre Neuve et Labrador, lors des essais par temps froid, le 28 février 2021.
Photo : Caporal David Veldman, Forces armées canadiennes 20210228HSK0086D172
Sailor 2nd Class Morgan Doyle clears ice off the ship's windshield wipers aboard HMCS MARGARET BROOKE in the Labrador Sea during transit to the Arctic for ice trials on February 22, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Le matelot de 2e classe Morgan Doyle retire la glace des essuie-glaces à bord du NCSM MARGARET BROOKE, dans la mer du Labrador, alors que le navire se dirige vers l’Arctique en vue de participer à des essais sur glace, le 22 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
NYC: Lincoln Center / Alice Tully Hall
Not shot through glass: we focused on the metal edge to demonstrate maximum blur
Olympus E-M1 | Olympus M.25/1.2
Strobist: One SB-25 1/4 through DIY beautydish off-camera right.. and then left, held by a voice activated light stand, my assistant for the day Pete. Triggered by pocketwizards.
Rashelmarie: MM# 840645
Crew members test a crane on the quarterdeck of HMCS HARRY DEWOLF in Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador during Cold Weather Trials on February 28, 2021.
Photo by Corporal David Veldman, Canadian Armed Forces Photo 20210228HSK0086D184
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Le matelot de 2e classe Jacob Fleck, manœuvrier, conduit une grue sur la plage arrière du NCSM HARRY DEWOLF dans la baie Conception, à Terre Neuve et Labrador, lors des essais par temps froid, le 28 février 2021.
Photo : Caporal David Veldman, Forces armées canadiennes 20210228HSK0086D184
A tourist couple, listening to one of the vaudeville performances.
Note: I chose this photo, among the five that I uploaded to Flickr on the morning of Feb 29, 2012, as my "photo of the day." It really doesn't tell you anything at all about Key West, but I like the framing and composition. Indeed, it looks almost like I asked the couple to pose for the photo, but that was not the case -- they were simply paying close attention to one of the performers.
Note: A large percentage of my "landscape" photos (including the ones in this set) are now copyright-protected, and are not available for downloads and free use. You can view them here in Flickr, but if you would like prints, enlargements, framed copies, and other variations, please visit my SmugMug "Key West" gallery by clicking <a href="Note: A large percentage of my "landscape" photos (including the ones in this set) are now copyright-protected, and are not available for downloads and free use. You can view them here in Flickr, but if you would like prints, enlargements, framed copies, and other variations, please visit my SmugMug "Key West" gallery by clicking here.
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Key West. It’s a familiar phrase to almost all Americans, and it conjures up images of a warm climate, Key West.
It’s a familiar phrase to almost all Americans, and it conjures up images of a warm climate, proximity to Cuba, Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville,” and perhaps a few vague connections to Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. It is indeed the southernmost city in the continental United States (129 miles southwest of Miami), and is also the southernmost terminus of highway U.S. 1, which originates a couple thousand miles north, up in Maine.
Less well known is the fact that the island was first visited by Europeans in 1521, by none other than Ponce de Leon. Much, much earlier, the island had previously been inhabited by members of the Calusa tribe, who apparently used the island as a communal graveyard. Thus, when the Spanish arrived, they found no resident Native Americans, but they did find a lot of bones; and assuming that the island had been the location of a cataclysmic batter between tribal warriors, they named it “Cayo Hueso” -- which literally means “bone key.” When Great Britain took control of Florida in 1763, they bastardized the name to “Key West,” which has obviously remained its name ever since.
I’ll skip the rest of the history lessons about Spanish and British domination of the island; suffice it to say that the Americans took charge in 1822, when Lt. Commander Matthew Perry sailed his schooner to Key West and claimed all of the Keys as U.S. property – a claim that apparently went uncontested. The Navy has been here ever since, and its first major task was ending acts of piracy which had previously made much of that part of the Caribbean a wild and wooly place indeed.
During the U.S. Civil War, the state of Florida seceded and joined the Confederacy; but because of the naval base, Key West remained in Union hands. Indeed, Key West served as the starting point for what became a relatively successful effort to blockade Confederate shipping along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, severely limiting its ability to trade with England and Europe.
Key West remained relatively isolated from the rest of Florida (not to mention the rest of the U.S.) until 1912, when it was connected to the Florida mainland via an incredibly expensive and ambitious railroad developed by Henry Flagler. Unfortunately, a massive Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed much of the railroad and killed hundreds of local residents. The U.S. government subsequently rebuilt the rail route as an automobile extension of U.S. Highway 1, which was completed in 1938.
While all of this was going on, Key West also became a haven for at least a few famous artists and writers. Ernest Hemingway initially settled in Key West in 1928, where he wrote A Farewell to Arms. And during the 1930s, he wrote or worked on Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. He also used the Depression-era Key West as the setting for To Have and Have Not, which is apparently his only novel set in the United States.
A decade later, Tennessee Williams became a regular visitor to Key West, and is said to have written the first draft of A Streetcar Named Desire while staying at La Concha Hotel in 1947; he continued to list Key West as his primary residence until his death in 1983.
One other small piece of history: Key West turns out to be much closer to Havana than it is to Miami. In the 1890s, half the residents of Key West were said to be of Cuban origin, and the city regularly had Cuban mayors. Cubans were actively involved in roughly 200 factories in the city, producing 100 million cigars annually. And the South American revolutionary hero José Martí made several visits seeking recruits for Cuban independence, and he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party during visits to Key West. The battleship USS Maine sailed from Key West on its visit to Havana, where it was blown up in an attack that led to the Spanish-American War. And finally, Pan American Airlines was founded in Key West in 1926, originally to fly visitors to Havana.
And thus endeth our short history lesson – none of which was of any particular significance to me during a recent week-long visit to Key West, motivated by a strong desire to escape the cold weather of New York City during the month of February. One other tidbit of trivia had attracted me: I had heard that there was a pier in Key West where the locals and visiting tourists gathered every evening to drink margaritas, sing raucous renditions of “Margaritaville” at the top of their lungs, and admire the sunsets as the sun sank into the western horizon of the Gulf of Mexico.
That pier, as it turns out, is Sunset Pier – and it was located just outside the hotel which I had chosen as the place to stay for the week. And while it turns out that margaritas are indeed consumed there, so are a lot of piña coladas, mojitos, and beers, along with hamburgers, hot dogs and fries: the whole place is a long, crowded, outdoor bar and grill. The raucous singing comes from an amped-up band at one end of the pier, and I’m not sure that anyone actually pays any attention to the sunset.
The sunset-watching, it turns out, is a little further down the pier: a large, open, brick-paved place known as Mallory Square fronts onto the harbor, and an even larger crowd does gather every night to watch the sun go down … as you’ll see in several of the photos in this Flickr set. There is also an amazing assortment of “performers,” for lack of a better name: wise-talking card-sharks; down-and-out guitar-playing musicians; a preacher determined to save the souls of anyone who would listen to him; tightrope walkers, sword-swallowers, and gymnasts; jugglers with machetes and flaming torches, tossed in the air with great abandon while the jugglers balance on 20-foot unicycles; and a guy with a banjo and a loyal dog who wanders around gathering dollar-bill contributions from the crowd, to be stuffed into a large bucket.
Meanwhile, schooners and catamarans drift past the crowd, out in the harbor, crammed with half-drunken tourists determined to get everyone’s attention by howling and yodeling at the top of their lungs. Ocean liners pull into the harbor at the end of Mallory Square, drop anchor and dock in the middle of the night, and then make a huge noisy ceremony of pulling up the gangplank and pulling away from the dock at 5 PM, just an hour before sunset.
Somehow, it all works: if you haven’t seen the scene before, it’s highly entertaining -- and the sunsets are truly fantastic. Of course, if you go back a second time, you’ll start to notice that the same performers are there, going through the same routine with the same patter and speech -- and you start paying less attention to them, and a little more attention to the more traditional vendors lined up a few feet away from the edge of the pier: people selling hot dogs, popcorn, conch fritters, drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), photographs, trinkets, jewelry, paintings, drawings, tarot readings and spiritual advice, and various odds and ends carved and woven and hand-made from bits and pieces of wood, metal, and palm fronds.
By the third or fourth night, the whole thing is completely repetitive – but the sunsets are still gorgeous. In my case, I escaped the Mallory Square scene a couple evenings to go for a sunset cruise on one of the many schooner docked in the neighborhood; I also went out for a ride in a glass-bottom boat to see the local coral reefs. But I passed up the opportunity to para-sail up in the sky above the whole scene, and I also decided to skip the opportunity to rent a jet-ski that would let me zoom around the harbor at breakneck speeds.
If you’re feeling energetic, you can also wander down Duval Street to see the gift shops, the tourist attractions, and the bars (e.g., Sloppy Joe’s, where Hemingway allegedly hung out. You can ride the little tourist “conch train” all around town, which gives you the chance to see every famous historic home and tourist spot in a little over an hour. I’ll confess that I did that, too, though it was so bumpy that I was only able to take one or two photographs …
I did have my camera with me throughout the week, of course, so I took my typical assortment of hundreds (maybe even thousands) of random pictures of anything that seemed interesting. I’m getting better about deleting things, though, so I’ve ended up with a mere 35 photos that I’m uploading to Flickr; hopefully you’ll find them moderately interesting…
HMCS MARGARET BROOKE is parked in ice while civilian contractors prepare to conduct ice sampling, in the Labrador Sea on February 27, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Des entrepreneurs civils prélèvent des échantillons de glace de mer, alors que le NCSM MARGARET BROOKE est stationné dans la glace, dans la mer du Labrador, le 27 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
View off of HMCS MARGARET BROOKE in the Labrador Sea during transit to the Arctic for ice trials on February 22, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Le matelot de 2e classe Morgan Doyle retire la glace des essuie-glaces à bord du NCSM MARGARET BROOKE, dans la mer du Labrador, alors que le navire se dirige vers l’Arctique en vue de participer à des essais sur glace, le 22 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
A secondary Multi-Roll Rescue Boat departs from HMCS MARGARET BROOKE to facilitate a boat transfer in Conception Bay Harbour during their transit to the Arctic for ice trials on February 20, 2022.
Photo: S2 Taylor Congdon, Canadian Armed Forces Photo
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Une embarcation de sauvetage polyvalente secondaire quitte le NCSM MARGARET BROOKE pour procéder à un transfert de navire dans le port de la baie Conception pendant leur navigation vers l’Arctique pour participer à des essais sur glace, le 20 février 2022.
Photo : Mat 2 Taylor Congdon, Forces armées canadiennes
That's his underwear not shorts. And he took the dogs out in the front yard in that ensemble. And you thought the panty man only existed inside our house. He's out and proud so get used to it.
Crew members test a crane on the quarterdeck of HMCS HARRY DEWOLF in Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador during Cold Weather Trials on February 28, 2021.
Photo by Corporal David Veldman, Canadian Armed Forces Photo 20210228HSK0086D183
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Le matelot de 2e classe Jacob Fleck, manœuvrier, conduit une grue sur la plage arrière du NCSM HARRY DEWOLF dans la baie Conception, à Terre Neuve et Labrador, lors des essais par temps froid, le 28 février 2021.
Photo : Caporal David Veldman, Forces armées canadiennes 20210228HSK0086D183